Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh was born in Lausanne in 1914. He spent his early childhood in Russia and Persia, his father being a member of the Russian Imperial Diplomatic Corps. His first books on prayer and the spiritual life (Living Prayer, Meditations on a Theme and God and Man) were published in England, and his texts are now widely published in Russia, both as books and in periodicals. His Eminence, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, died peacefully 4th August, 2003, at the age of 89.